ELIA Biennial Conference 2026

Zwolle, Netherlands

18 – 21 November 2026
Hosted by ArtEZ University of the Arts

Pedagogical Protest

Breakout Session 1: Wednesday, 18 November (16:30 – 18:15)
Costas Vermeer, Nathalie Roos, Amsterdam University of the Arts, Netherlands

This performative dialogue explores the edges of radicality in arts education through a conversation between teacher and student. The tension between the courage of activism and its risks/failure is examined, inviting the audience into these margins of irresolution by exploring questions such as: Where does courage begin, and where does it become recklessness? When does care turn into containment? How far can, and should, a minor in art and activism go? Who decides where the line is drawn? Participants are invited to rethink the meaning of courage and its relationship to discomfort and consider the strength that emerges precisely when we move off-centre.

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